Download or read book The Rise of American Research Universities written by Hugh Davis Graham and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-09-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important and timely work, Graham and Diamond reassess the success of American universities as research institutions and the role of public funding in their developmentfrom the expansionist golden yearsof the 1950s and '60s, through the austerity measures of the 1970s and the entrepreneurial ethos of the 1980s, to the budget crises universities face in the 1990s.